Posts made by moss

I’m far from an expert on the subject, but it could be an issue with the host kernel not containing the drivers to support the SCSI hardware. Its possible to build custom kernels containing other drivers but its not something I’ve ever needed to do or whether SCSI devices would actually work.

Does it need to be a SCSI HDD for any particular reason? I’ve never actually tried any SCSI drives with FOG but I suspect you’ll have more luck with a SATA/IDE drive.

What type of virtual hard drive are you using? IDE/SATA/SCSI?

Is this is a physical or virtual machine you’re trying to image?

Just had a go at adding the group names to the query. Ive came up with this:
[CODE]
SELECT *
FROM groupMembers
JOIN hosts
ON groupMembers.gmHostID = hosts.hostID
JOIN groups
ON groupMembers.gmGroupID = groups.groupID
[/CODE]
I’m no coder/DB admin so someone else might have a better solution

I know very little about SQL but if you install phpmyadmin on the fog server (do a quick search on here, there’s a few guides on how to do it) you can perform SQL queries on the database. The following will join the groupMembers table and the hosts table, showing which group ID (not name) hosts are associated with. It ‘should’ be fairly easy to build upon that and join the groups table too.
[CODE]
SELECT *
FROM groupMembers
JOIN hosts
ON groupMembers.gmHostID = hosts.hostID
[/CODE]

I doubt you’re going to be able to achieve it without plugging a keyboard into the client machines, the Capone plugin could speed up the imaging process though as you wont have to register the machines.

Fog 0.33 is in active development, the bug tracking thread can be found here:
[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/bugs-in-fog-0-33.631/[/url]

You could try running Wireshark (or tcpdump but Wireshark is easier) on the server to check if the server is actually receiving the packets from the client. Its probably best to filter to the clients IP as you will get a whole load of useless information shown.

I’ve done it both in audit mode and normal mode without issues, like chad-bisd, i always used the /oobe /generalize /unattend switches.

I have our clients setup just using the default host-name (fogserver), /fog shouldn’t be needed.

Have you changed any file/folder/firewall permissions on the server itself?

Its usually recommended, but not doing it isn’t likely to be causing the host-name issue as I believe the unique identifiers etc which are modified by Sysprep are mainly used for things like WSUS.
Ive found its best to build a base image not based upon an existing machine, although if you’re Syspreping the image it shouldn’t matter too much if it was.

Are you using Sysprep when deploying hosts? Its usually best to do so and use the answer file to give the machine a random name.

Although it sounds like DHCP options are correct, it might be worth checking it using Wireshark on the client PC. If you filter the capture to ports 67 & 68 (UDP but it doesn’t matter if you capture both TCP and UDP), then perform an ipconfig /release, ipconfig /renew or simply disconnect/reconnect the network cable. Within the captured packets you should be able to see the DHCP options and that pretty rules out DHCP configuration issues.

Step 5 is editing the file /etc/exports, to do this from the console/command line:
sudo nano /etc/exports
(or if you’re logged in as root: nano /etc/exports )
You will then be prompted for your password (unless you’re logged in as root)
Copy/write the lines given in step 5 into the editor, press CTRL+X to exit then Y to save.

Have you double checked option 67 to make sure the names specified correctly? pxelinux.0, using a zero not an O?

I don’t know how to achieve what you’re asking, Capone can be used to image a machine which hasn’t registered or has no default image assigned to it but I don’t think its flexible enough to do what you’re wanting.

Unless I’m misunderstanding you, wouldn’t quick image or possibly even Capone do what you want?

You need to go to:
Other Information - Fog Settings, then change the FOG_VIEW_DEFAULT_SCREEN to:
LIST
(the default setting is SEARCH)